Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Thurmon Lockhart

Department of Bio-Engineering, Gait Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Biography

Thurmon Lockhart is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Iria Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering , Prof. Dr. Lockhart has been appointed as a Guest Professor with the Department and is teaching the course on Ergonomics for our Graduate students. He also supervises graduate student research in the area of Ergonomics and Biomedical Engineering. Prof. Dr. Lockhart is the Editor of Ergonomics (Taylor and Francis), and the Associate Editor of Annals of Biomedical Engineering (Springer).

Research Interest

Fall risk prediction and assessments

Movement Disorders (e.g., Parkinson’s disease, Stroke, Ataxia)

Gait and Posture, Locomotion and Postural Control, and Nonlinear Dynamics

Wireless wearable sensors for continuous, non-invasive gait monitoring to accurately detect and study fall events and predict future falls in the elderly population

Interventions (nutrition/exercise) to reduce falls in older adults

Occupational fall prevention training

 

Publications

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